Ethical Issues and Social Dilemmas in Knowledge Management: Organizational Innovation

✍ Scribed by Goncalo Jorge Morais da Costa

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 359
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Knowledge management is a multi-disciplinary field, encompassing management, information science, psychology, sociology, neurobiology, ethics, and others. It impacts many organizational communities, which determine its boundaries, making ethical and social dilemmas vital it is proper execution. Ethical Issues and Social Dilemmas in Knowledge Management: Organizational Innovation considers these dilemmas at two levels: the individual vs. individual and the individual vs. the collective, providing a thorough treatment of these facets. This book demonstrates the philosophical underpinnings of each dimension of knowledge management, exposing the ethical and social dilemmas that occur. It also links knowledge management and organizational innovation and proposes and explores strategies to minimize such dilemmas. This book clearly illustrates a whole new perspective on knowledge management, as well as expanding the literature treating this approach.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
List of Reviewers......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Detailed Table of Contents
......Page 9
Foreword......Page 15
Preface......Page 18
Acknowledgment......Page 26
Knowledge Creation and Sharing in Japanese Organisations: A Socio-Cultural Perspective on ba......Page 30
What Does Knowledge Have to do with Ethics?......Page 46
Knowledge Management and Democracy: A Critical Review of Some Moral Issues and Social Dilemmas......Page 57
Global “Knowledge Management” in Humanist Perspective......Page 74
Utilization of Resources: An Ethical Issue — The Anti-Commons and the Aquaculture Case......Page 92
The Emerging Ethics of Knowledge Sharing: Hacker Ethics, Participatory Culture Ethics and Proselytization Commons Ethics......Page 109
The Trouble with Digital Copies: A Short KM Phenomenology......Page 126
From “Connectivism” to “Ethicism”......Page 142
Glocality, Diversity and Ethics of Distributed Knowledge in Higher Education......Page 160
Renewal and Personal Mastery in Knowledge-Based Organisations: The Case of a Finnish ICT-Company......Page 189
The Importance of Balancing Knowledge Protection and Knowledge Interchange......Page 209
Management of Moral Knowledge and Ethical Processes in Organizations......Page 228
Knowledge Worker Fair Compensation: Ethical Issues and Social Dilemmas......Page 244
Mobilizing Knowledge in the UK Public Sector: Current Issues and Discourse......Page 261
Ethical Evaluation of Learning Organizations: A Conceptual Framework......Page 279
Compilation of References......Page 307
About the Contributors......Page 350
Index......Page 355